As the world becomes more digitized, the importance of user security awareness training cannot be overstated. Cybercrime is on the rise, and businesses are increasingly becoming targets of hacking, phishing, and other cyber-attacks. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of user security awareness training and why it should be a top priority for your business. What is User Security Awareness Training? User security awareness...

It's no secret that businesses of all sizes are moving their operations to the cloud at an unprecedented rate. The cloud has rapidly become the go-to solution for companies looking to improve their agility, scalability, and efficiency while reducing costs. Venture Pointe has assisted many clients in transitioning from on-premise services and applications to 100% cloud based apps. But many of our smaller clients often...

We are constantly discussing recent breaches and attacks in today's security and safety culture. Then many IT firms show up on the news, or media platforms and tell you how to navigate the murky waters of cyber security and what your incident response plan should be. However, we rarely, if ever, see organizations warn and prepare businesses for when one of their vendors' security is breached...

Another high-profile cyber-attack hit businesses around the world, this time targeting the popular voice over IP (VoIP) software solution, 3CX. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at the March 2023 3CX hack and explain why it is so important to have a trusted IT partner to help protect your business from similar attacks. What happened in the 3CX hack? It was discovered that...

THE TRUTH IS, IF THEY WANT YOUR DATA, THEY CAN TAKE IT! As a partner in a local Managed Service Provider Company, I get asked all the time questions like; “why do companies get hacked” or “why would a company/city pay a hacker to get their data back” and even “how can someone get hacked”? The short answer is a lack of understanding or that their company...

PROTECTING MY DATA: PART II   As we discussed in our last posting, a very large percentage of small to mid-sized businesses do not take adequate steps to protect the data they retain. That data being everything from their own internal processes and procedures to customer data, employee data, sales data, etc.   In fact, when most of the businesses are asked about the topic, they usually only think...